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By CHRIS HARROWELL
THREE men are facing crimi-
nal charges relating to the
theft of property including
frearms from an East Auckland
home.
Constable Matt Horscroft, of
Counties Manukau East Police’s
tactical crime reduction unit,
says the house in Shankill Place,
East Tamaki, was broken into on
March 3.
“The offenders entered the
property by forcing the front
door open, breaking the door
lock and frame,” he told the
Times.
“Nobody was home at the
time.
“Stolen were six frearms,
computers and diving gear.”
Taken from the residence were
frearms including an air pistol, a
Tikka T3 rife, an FX Gladiator
air rife, an Anschutz 54 target
rife, and a Dell laptop.
The next month, at about
12.35pm on April 9, two men
entered Serious Shooters gun
shop in Penrose.
Mr Horscroft says they tried
to sell an allegedly stolen high-
powered FX Royale pre-charged
pneumatic air rife, but were
turned down by the shop’s staff.
At about 2.39pm on the same
day, the pair tried to sell the fre-
arm to staff at Young’s Airgun
Centre in Mt Roskill. They were
again unsuccessful.
Police believe the two men
who tried to sell the stolen air
rife were being driven by a
third person in a Honda motor
vehicle.
Mr Horscroft says that at about
2.45pm on April 9, police offcers
stopped the Honda vehicle in Mt
Eden after it was allegedly seen
feeing a burglary.
He says found in the back of
the motor vehicle was the sto-
len FX Royale air rife the men
had tried to sell at the two gun
shops.
Following police inquiries,
three search warrants were
executed at homes in Manurewa
and Onehunga on May 22.
Property stolen during a
number of burglaries was alleg-
edly recovered by police from
the two Manurewa residences
visited by police, as was a stolen
Ford vehicle.
Three men aged 24, 26 and 29
were arrested.
All three are charged by police
with receiving stolen property
and unlawful possession of a
frearm.
“Police are awaiting further
forensic results before laying
possible further charges relat-
ing to the recovered stolen prop-
erty and Ford vehicle,” says Mr
Horscroft.
Among the allegedly sto-
len items recovered by police
from the Manurewa properties
is a range of jewellery, includ-
ing chains and a unique pocket
watch.
There are also a Paslode nail
gun, two handsaws, a black and
red Jackman toolbox containing
tools, and a black Bosch sander
in a black case.
People who may own any of
the allegedly stolen property
recently recovered by Counties
Manukau East Police’s tactical
crime reduction unit can phone
constable Matt Horscroft on
250-2823.
INFORMATION WANTED: Counties Manukau East Police's tactical crime reduction unit is working to locate the owners of a range of recovered
stolen property.
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Weapons stolen at home